How we follow, share
and use the news
A news usage survey compiled
by News Republic, the news app
that aggregates global news for
smartphones, tablets and
wearables, sheds light on
similarities and differences in
how nationalities engage with
the news and provides
interesting insights into how
gender plays a role in
engagement with the news.
News Republic compiled
nearly 14,000 responses across
six countries – the US, France,
Germany, UK, Italy and Spain.
“To feel connected to the world,”
was the top reason for following
the news given in every country.
The responses showed that
national news is most important
to every reader, but in every
country, 60% of readers are also
interested in international news,
with tech news of greater
interest than business news. The
world is split down the middle on
whether they would use a
wearable to track the news.
Among a string of recent
awards and nominations, News
Republic has been chosen as one
of Google’s favourite Android
apps (only 40 out of 1+ million), is
a global “Editor’s Choice” and
received the SIGNL award for
Twitter momentum.
Teeman joins Bloomberg
Matt Teeman is joining Bloomberg
Media as commercial director for
its international multi-platform
media organisation in EMEA.
Bloomberg Media includes web,
mobile, television, digital video,
radio, print magazines and live
events. Teeman was most
recently commercial director at
DMG Media and previously at
Metro, Immediate Media and
BBC Worldwide.
Based in London, Teeman will
oversee Bloomberg Media's
advertising sales efforts, pursuing
innovative revenue models and
expanding into new markets as
part of Bloomberg’s new
consumer media strategy, first
outlined by Justin B. Smith, CEO
of Bloomberg Media in March.
Adam Freeman who was
IN BRIEF
GUIZHOU GOES
FOR VIBE
Guizhou Province TV, the
primary broadcaster in
China's Guizhou province, has
deployed Thomson Video
Networks' ViBE VS7000
encoding and transcoding
platform to drive the launch
of its new IPTV service.
Installed in the station's
operations centre in Guiyang
City, the ViBE platform joins
an existing footprint of TVN
video compression solutions.
Currently delivering 17 HD
channels and 35 SD channels
via IPTV, the ViBE VS7000 is
providing the foundation for
the network's long-term
strategy to offer a range of IP
video services, including
multi-screen delivery.
EMMY NOMINEE
Romania’s Antena 3 has been
nominated for an Emmy by
The International Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences in
the Current Affairs category
for
The Long Journey Home
.
It tells the story of a boy
saved from the abominable
orphanage in Siret and now
living in the US who gathers
the courage to return to
Romania to meet the man
who saved his life and the
mother who abandoned him.
The Emmy winners will be
announced in New York on 30
September.
BLACK BOX RAID
The recent raids by Hong
Kong Customs on suppliers
of pirate TV box services
should serve as a warning to
all potential consumers of
unauthorised TV services,
said Asia’s pay-TV
association CASBAA: as the
content is being illegally
supplied the signal is
subject to interruption at
any time. Illegal boxes pose
a growing problem, and
industry players expect to
work closely with
enforcement agencies to
combat their supply and
use. Holders of authorised
pay-TV licences in Hong
Kong are Hong Kong Cable
TV, PCCW/now TV, and TVB
Network Vision.
appointed in May as the first
Managing Director of Bloomberg
Media for Europe, the Middle
East and Africa, said “Matt is a
terrific addition to the strong
commercial team within
Bloomberg Media bringing more
than 20 years of experience,
particularly in the cross-
platform area. He will build
solutions to evolve our portfolio
of digitally-led, multi-platform
brands targeting the informed
and engaged global audience
who voraciously consume
Bloomberg Media’s brands. Our
global scale presents
commercial partners with
opportunities no other media
company in the world can offer,
and Matt will further build our
regional commercial offering as
part of the wider global strategy."
Engaging
Arab Youth
Arabic language network Radio
Sawa, which has a weekly reach
of more than 11m, has launched
its new free Radio Sawa app that
gives owners of iPhones, iPads
and Android phones and tablets
instant access to Radio Sawa’s
streams of breaking news,
music, information programmes
and hourly news updates.
Listeners can tune into one of
Radio Sawa’s seven country and
regional streams which include
Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco,
Gulf, Lebanon and Sudan. User
participation is through Sawa
Chat, and original content can be
easily shared via Facebook,
Twitter and e-mail. The app
features On Demand Podcasts of
Radio Sawa’s news and
information programmes and
allows audiences to tune into
Radio Sawa while using other
apps. The Radio Sawa app is
produced in partner-ship with
the Broadcasting Board of
Governors Office of Digital &
Design Innovation.
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RRI partnerships
Radio Romania International is
partnering with UBB Radio, the
online student station of Babes-
Bolyai University in Cluj, NW
Romania. UBB Radio rebroadcasts
RRI shows in Romanian, English,
German, French, Spanish and
Italian for UBB’s foreign
students. In another initiative,
RRI Spanish language content is
rebroadcast at the Miguel de
Cervantes high school in
Bucharest. RRI is part of Radio
Romania (PBS), the market
leader (31.7% cumulated market
share, daily reach 4.5m listeners).
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